The race this year was tight, and for a good reason. There were so many films made by minorities (females, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, etc) about minorities. They presented important stories, perspectives, and much needed social commentary. Add to that the powerful perfomances from not only veteran actors, but newcomers who have just had their breakout moments. Below are all the winners as we conclude another successful awards season. Thank you all for participating with us. The Governing Committee would especially like to thank our international membership for lending us their perspectives so that we could come up with such diverse choices.

Nominees for the OFCS Award for Best Picture

A Ghost Story

Call Me By Your Name

Dunkirk

Get Out – WINNER

Lady Bird

mother!

Phantom Thread

The Florida Project

The Shape Of Water

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Nominees for the OFCS Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture

Daniel Kaluuya, “Get Out”

Gary Oldman, “The Darkest Hour” – WINNER

James Franco, “The Disaster Artist”

Robert Pattinson, “Good Time”

Timothée Chalamet, “Call Me By Your Name”

Nominees for the OFCS Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture

Cynthia Nixon, “A Quiet Passion”

Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

Margot Robbie, “I, Tonya

Sally Hawkins, “The Shape Of Water” – WINNER

Saoirse Ronan, “Lady Bird”

Nominees for the OFCS Award for Best Director of a Motion Picture

Christopher Nolan, “Dunkirk” – WINNER

Greta Gerwig, “Lady Bird”

Guillermo del Toro, “The Shape of Water”

Jordan Peele, “Get Out”

Paul Thomas Anderson, “Phantom Thread”

Nominess for the OFCS Award for Best Original Screenplay

Greta Gerwig, “Lady Bird”

Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor, “The Shape of Water”

Jordan Peele, “Get Out” – WINNER

Martin McDonagh, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

Paul Thomas Anderson, “Phantom Thread”

Nominees for the OFCS Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

Aaron Sorkin, “Molly’s Game”

James Gray, “The Lost City of Z”

James Ivory, “Call Me By Your Name” – WINNER

Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, “The Disaster Artist”

Sofia Coppola, “The Beguiled”

Nominees for the OFCS Award for Best Documentary

Dawson City: Frozen Time

Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

Faces Places – WINNER

Jane

The Work

Nominees for the OFCS Award for Best Foregin Language Film

BPM (Beats Per Minute) – WINNER

Nocturama

Raw

Thelma

The Square

Nominees for the OFCS Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture

Armie Hammer, “Call Me By Your Name”

Michael Stuhlbarg, “Call Me By Your Name”

Patrick Stewart, “Logan”

Richard Jenkins, “The Shape Of Water”

Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” – WINNER

Nominees for the OFCS Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

Allison Janney, “I, Tonya”

Holly Hunter, “The Big Sick”

Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird” – WINNER

Mary J. Blige, “Mudbound”

Tiffany Haddish, “Girls Trip”

Nominees for the OFCS Award for Best Animated Feature

Coco – WINNER

In This Corner Of The World

Lego Batman Movie

Loving Vincent

The Breadwinner

Nominees for the OFCS Award for Best Editing in a Motion Picture

Ben Safdie and Ronald Bronstein, “Good Time”

Lee Smith, “Dunkirk” – WINNER

Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos, “Baby Driver”

Sidney Wolinsky, “The Shape Of Water”

Tatiana S. Riegel, “I, Tonya”

Nominees for the OFCS Award for Best Cinematography in a Motion Picture

Another year, another round of OFCS awards. The Online Film Critics Society is one of only a few truly international film critics organizations. Our eclectic nominations reflect the diverse tastes of our growing global membership. Here are our nominations for 2017, and keep an eye out for our winner’s announcement on December 28th.

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The powerful coming-of-age drama Moonlight dominated the 2016 Online Film Critics Society Awards, winning a total of four awards out of seven nominations.

The film beat out competition from La La Land, Arrival, Jackie and Manchester by the Sea amongst others to be named Best Picture. Barry Jenkins won Best Director and Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris won Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress, respectively.

The Online Film Critics Society’s Governing Committee said, “We’d like to congratulate all involved with Moonlight for the power and humanity of this extraordinary film. Topical and relevant, it is a timely reminder of that which unites us being greater than that which divides us.”

Damien Chazelle’s La La Land, which tied with Moonlight for seven nominations, won in the Best Editing and Best Cinematography categories.

Casey Affleck won Best Actor for his portrayal of a man consumed by grief in Manchester By the Sea, adding another accolade to the over 30 awards he has already garnered for the performance. Natalie Portman was named Best Actress for her portrayal of Jacqueline Kennedy in the days following the assassination of JFK in Pablo Larraín’s Jackie. Both actors are hotly tipped as Oscar favorites for their performances at the Academy Awards on 26th February.

Laika’s anime-flavored stop-motion fantasy Kubo and the Two Strings won Best Animated Feature. Kubo… won over three Disney nominees, Finding Dory, Moana and Zootopia, plus the dialogue free The Red Turtle, a Belgian-French-Japanese production with involvement from Studio Ghibli.

The Handmaiden, from South Korean director Park Chan-wook, won Best Film Not in the English Language, while O.J.: Made in America, Ezra Edelman’s epic dissection of celebrity and racial discord in latter 20th-century America, was awarded Best Documentary.

Best Original Screenplay went to Taylor Sheridan for his recession crime thriller Hell or High Water. Eric Heisserer won Best Adapted Screenplay for Arrival, adapting Ted Chiang’s short story, “Story of Your Life”.

Three Special Awards were voted for by the OFCS membership, all of them Memorials reflecting the number of cherished entertainers lost in 2016. These Memorial Awards were named for Carrie Fisher, Alan Rickman & Gene Wilder.

Alongside the films in competition, 10 films not released in the US were selected by the membership for special note. These include Hirokazu Kore-eda’s After the Storm, The Dardennes Brothers’ The Unknown Girl, Bertrand Bonello’s Nocturama, Hong Sang-soo’s Yourself and Yours and Colm McCarthy’s The Girl with All the Gifts.

Previous OFCS Best Picture winners include Mad Max: Fury Road, The Grand Budapest Hotel and 12 Years a Slave.

La La Land and Moonlight top the nominations for the 2016 Online Film Critic Society’s Awards with 7 nods each, including Best Picture and Best Director.

With 6 nominations apiece are the critically acclaimed Arrival and Manchester by the Sea.

Films also up for Best Picture include Jackie and Hell or High Water.

Casey Affleck’s performance in Manchester by the Sea heads the Best Lead Actor category. Affleck is joined in the category by Adam Driver, Ryan Gosling, Viggo Mortensen and Denzel Washington.

Leading nominations for Best Lead Actress are Natalie Portman for her performance in Pablo Larraín’s Jackie and Isabelle Huppert in Paul Verhoeven’s controversial Elle. Other actresses nominated are Amy Addams, Ruth Negga and Emma Stone.

Supporting Actor and Actress nominations include Mahershala Ali for Moonlight, Jeff Bridges for Hell or High Water, Michael Shannon for Nocturnal Animals, Michelle Williams for Manchester by the Sea, Viola Davis for Fences, and Octavia Spencer for Hidden Figures.

Moonlight and La La Land’s 7 nominations reflect the huge acclaim the films have already garnered, both already the recipient of numerous awards. Moonlight and La La Land’s directors Barry Jenkins and Damien Chazelle are joined by Pablo Larraín, Kenneth Lonergan and Denis Villeneuve in the Best Director category.

Toni Erdmann, The Handmaiden, Elle, The Salesman, and Neruda have all been nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Neruda is Jackie director Pablo Larraín’s second nominated film on this year’s list.

Ezra Edelman’s epic O.J.: Made in America leads the Best Documentary category and the film has also been nominated for Best Picture. Joining Edelman’s film for Best Documentary are two other race-centric films, 13th and I Am Not Your Negro.

Kubo and the Two Strings, Zootopia, Moana, The Red Turtle and Finding Dory make up the Best Animated Feature category.

The Online Film Critics Society is one of only a few truly international film critics organisations. Reflecting the global membership of the OFCS, 10 films not released in the US have been selected by the membership for special note.

These include Hirokazu Kore-eda’s After the Storm, The Dardennes Brothers’ The Unknown Girl, Bertrand Bonello’s Nocturama, Hong Sang-soo’s Yourself and Yours and Colm McCarthy’s The Girl with All the Gifts.

The Online Film Critics Society’s Governing Committee said, “This year’s nominations and films recognised represent the rich variety of films on the global stage in 2016. Over 150 titles were long listed for Best Picture, over 100 for Best Foreign Language Film and over 30 titles for Best Animated Feature.

The list of nominees across all categories reflects cinema’s power to entertain, to provoke, to inspire hope and debate and to be a force for change. These films also prove that while 2016 was not a banner year in all areas, for cinema we are currently enjoying a golden age.”

Previous OFCS Best Picture winners include Mad Max: Fury Road, The Grand Budapest Hotel and 12 Years a Slave.

Hello publicists, critics, loyal readers, and everyone else who can see this. At this time, the new Governing Committee are working with web designers to make a new, improved, better site for the Online Film Critics Society.

With that, we are putting a halt on weekly updates. If there is a critic you want to keep tabs on in the meantime, you can see all of our members here.

We are still very active on the site, just trying to make it more user-friendly, better for our members, and look fresh like it’s now a part of the 21st century.